块塊 in English
- lump (of earth) / chunk / piece / classifier for pieces of cloth, cake, soap etc / (coll.) classifier for money and currency units / lump
Stroke order
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Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.
How it used to be written
These are the forms of 塊, the traditional character: 块 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Warring States script 戰國.晉 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 6 forms
Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).
Examples
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"妈妈，我能吃一块饼干吗？" "不行，不该在3餐间吃。"
"Mum, can I have a biscuit?" "No, you shouldn't eat between meals."
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中国是三人在中等餐馆吃火锅自助餐一共值五块人民币而汉堡包比它贵五倍唯一的国家。您去搞明白吧......
China's the only country where three people can eat at a mid-range hotpot buffet for only 5 RMB, but a hamburger costs five times as much. Figure that one out!
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他拾起了一块儿红色的石头。
He picked up a red stone.
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他朝着大狗扔了块石头。
He threw a stone at the big dog.
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他的头撞倒了一块岩石。
He hit his head against a rock.
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你喜欢哪一块？这块还是那块？
Which one do you prefer, this one or that one?
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你现在有几块电池呀？
How many batteries do you have right now?
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切除这块肉的脂肪。
Trim the fat off the meat.